Literary notes about apperception (AI summary)
In literature, apperception is portrayed as the dynamic process by which the mind transforms raw sensory data into a coherent, self-aware experience. It is not merely about perceiving details but about integrating new ideas with the existing network of thoughts and memories [1, 2]. Philosophical and psychological texts often use the term to denote the unifying principle of consciousness, as seen in discussions about how judgments are formed and knowledge is synthesized [3, 4]. In narrative and imaginative contexts, apperception sometimes even takes on a physical or metaphorical dimension—invoking images of mental centers and the active construction of reality—which deepens its role as a symbol of ongoing self-formation and reflective awareness [5, 6, 7].
- Apperception assimilates new ideas by bringing each into the bond of its kindred and friends, spinning threads of connection in every direction.
— from The Elements of General Method, Based on the Principles of Herbart by Charles A. (Charles Alexander) McMurry - Through it all apperception remains the unifying function which binds that manifold content into one ordered whole.
— from An Introduction to PsychologyTranslated from the Second German Edition by Wilhelm Max Wundt - § 14 The Logical Form of all Judgements consists in the Objective Unity of Apperception of the Conceptions contained therein.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - Apperception, or full consciousness, is the same self-activity, self-reflex, self-sight, transformed into "understanding."
— from The Church of St. Bunco A Drastic Treatment of a Copyrighted Religion-- Un-Christian Non-Science by Gordon Clark - He entered The Brain and went up in the elevator to Apperception 36.
— from The Brain by Alexander Blade - As the elevator shot up through the concrete of The Brain's "dura mater" toward Apperception 36, Lee was feeling grand.
— from The Brain by Alexander Blade - The exercise of apperception gives a distinctiveness to idiocracy, which is, however, subject to the limits of ME.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales by Bret Harte
